As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

Students will review and play with three basic sentence structures to liven up their writing.

Students will use an excerpt from the book The Secret Agent Training Manual: How to Make and Break Top Secret Messages by Elizabeth Singer Hunt to study paragraph structure.

Students compose a persuasive paragraph stating their opinion, including an introduction, three supporting arguments, and a conclusion, with the help of this worksheet template.

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Use this helpful journal prompt to get your child thinking about gratitude and their impact on others!

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Using this template, young writers will draft their topic sentence, reasons, and concluding sentence.

Learners practice finding and editing specific punctuation errors in this letter-editing exercise.

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Use this example of a persuasive essay to dissect and identify the parts of this genre.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

Kids practice argument writing with this claims worksheet.

Help your students review how develop a claim and support that claim with evidence. A claim is an opinion about a story that you can support with evidence.

After reviewing the different parts of a persuasive paragraph, your fourth graders will outline their own persuasive paragraph.

Students will organize and construct the skeleton of an persuasive essay with this engaging activity.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Evaluate your arguments with this fourth-grade persuasive writing assessment!

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Students will study effective hooks and have the option to craft some hooks for their own writing.